Deny Quotes

• Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Patriotic

  Letter to Henry L. Pierce and Others, 6 Apr. 1859

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• You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

  Stephen King

  Funny, Happiness, Smile

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  Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY

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  The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Humor, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.125, Penguin

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• Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Technology, Ethos

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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  Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

  Coretta Scott King

  Freedom, Believe, Justice

  Press Conference on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 1994, Washington D.C., June 23, 1994.

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• Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

  Laurence Overmire

  Reality, Overcoming, Helping

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• A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

  William Feather

  Men, Ability, Obligation

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• Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, Who suffered death because she chose to turn.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Death, Women, Heart

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.77, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.

  Randall Terry

  Believe, People, People Can Change

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• Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.

  Neil Diamond

  Nice, Different, Would Be

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• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  Ed Pastor

  Country, Nuclear, Barcelona

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• If you notice any of the press from when I was with the show, I would always deny it being the year 3000.

  Joel Hodgson

  Ethos, Years, Shows

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• No one who is at all acquainted with the Indian in his home can deny that we are a polite people.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Home, Ethos, People

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.

  Don Henley

  Song, Artist, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

  Robert Walpole

  War, Party, Justice

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• Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

  Cullen Hightower

  Would Be, Generations, Argument

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• Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

  Dick Durbin

  Cutting, Important, Pressure

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• I think we have to believe we are here for some purpose, and I know there are many cynics who will deny it, but they don't live as if they deny it.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Believe, Thinking, Purpose

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• I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn.

  Juliette Binoche

  Past, Risk, Pages

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

  Garrison Keillor

  Time, Eye, Reality

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• All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Men, Differences

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• In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Moving, Men

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.6, New Directions Publishing

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• Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

  Ayn Rand

  Leave Me Alone, Reason, Thrive

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.9, Penguin

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• Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

  Gail Sheehy

  Change, Unnecessary, Accomplices

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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